Linux kernel

Linux Kernel

In order to ensure Linux kernel support for Arabic you will need UTF-8 support. This could be done by ensuring that your kernel ".config" file (or whatever you call your kernel configuration file) has the following options:

kernel configuration

# Parition Types
CONFIG_NLS=y
# Native Language Support
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="UTF8"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6=y
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y